Subject Guides: Graduate Student Research Tips & Tricks: Publishing and Scholarly Communication

Publishing Tools & Topics

Digital Commons
The Digital Commons is the institutional repository of campus scholarship and creative work at UMaine. You can deposit work that is educational, artistic, or research-oriented (e.g., articles, creative works, posters, patents, conference proceedings), and that matches the goals and scope of the collection.
Open Access Publishing
Create access to your research and increase the visibility of your scholarship through Open Access publication avenues.
ORCID
An ORCID is a 16-digit identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher, and supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities.
Research Data Management
This guide points to UMaine resources, best practices, tools, and support for managing your research data.
Serials Directory
Looking for a place to publish? Search for journals by discipline in the Serials Directory. You can limit to peer reviewed publications.

Scholarly impact can refer to several aspects of scholarly communication. Most commonly:

Journal Impact is the amount of times articles from a specific journal are cited combined with the number of articles that the journal publishes - this is known as the impact factor: http://www.sciencegateway.org/impact.
H-index measures scholarly impact at the author level - the amount of articles a scholar published combined with how many times those published articles are cited creates your h-index.
Eigenfactor is intended to measure the overall importance of a scientific journal. Similar to the journal impact factor, the Eigenfactor was developed to be a more robust tool, and considers how broad the journal's contribution is.

Journal Citation Reports This link opens in a new window
Journal Citation Reports allows the user to evaluate and compare the impact of journals.

Google Scholar Citations
Google Scholar collects your publishing and citation information and creates its own h-index metric. To find yours, create a Google Scholar Profile. You can choose whether to make your profile Public or Private. When searching for other authors' h-index, Google Scholar only gives access to authors who have created a public profile.
Eigenfactor
The eigenfactor metric, and tool, was developed by Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom at the University of Washington. Search by journal name to find its eigenfactor.
Altmetrics
Altmetrics is the use of alternative, or nontraditional, measurements to better understand the attention a work receives outside the citation alone. Examples include number of article downloads, item views, and social media mentions.
Locating who Cited your Work
Learn how to track who's cited your work in Web of Science and Google Scholar.